Anthony Atala is the G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University, USA. He is a practicing surgeon and a researcher of regenerative medicine. His work focuses on growing human cells, tissues, and organs. He has led/served several national professional and government committees, including the National Institutes of Health working group on Cells and Developmental Biology, the National Institutes of Health Bioengineering Consortium, and the National Cancer Institute’s Advisory Board. He is a founding member of the Tissue Engineering Society, Regenerative Medicine Foundation, Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Innovation Consortium, Regenerative Medicine Development Organization, and Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Society. He is a recipient of the US Congress-funded Christopher Columbus Foundation Award, the World Technology Award in Health and Medicine, the Edison Science/Medical Award for innovation, the R&D Innovator of the Year Award, and the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for Bioprinting Tissue and Organs.
Shay Soker is a Professor of Regenerative Medicine and the Chief Science Program Officer at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He received his PhD from the Technion-Israel Institute for Technology, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Soker's research focuses on multiple aspects of regenerative medicine including identification of new sources of cells and scaffolds for tissue engineering, tissue neovascularization, real-time imaging technologies, and fabrication of bioengineered tissue equivalents (organoids) as developmental and disease models. He has authored over 227 publications with a total citation of 24,163 and an h-index of 76 (Scopus).
